LSAAP Body-to-Body 

LSAAP body-to-body is a branch of our Somatic Laboratory applied to Architecture and Landscape.

It consists of a series of individual sessions combined or not with other collective formats. It is an experimental environment that adapts to each person’s field of research, always from a somatic root. It is a line of work in parallel to our happenings and collective workshops. There are several formats:

1/ Trilogy Series I

This is a format specially developed for people who research through the body. We combine individual FI sessions with specific topics of study. The first series consists of 3 sessions:

I- STRUCTURE (Politics of Easiness)

II- IMAGINARIES (Interspecies Body)

III- SKIN (Distributed Cognition Systems)

The format of these series is that of somatic research, i.e. it will be through the body itself and its movement that we learn about these three aspects in their relation to architecture: (STRUCTURE) The structures that work by form and biotensegrity, we can experience them in our perception; (IMAGINARIES) The bodily imaginaries according to which we design we can discover them in our perception, we can also discover new ones to design in other ways; (SKIN) Somatic markers, skin receptors and fascia function as distributed cognition systems that we can also design in architecture.

The sessions will last approximately 50 minutes per person (IF), plus half an hour of introduction and comments on the topic. In total 80 minutes. Bibliography or drawings specific to each session will also be consulted.

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2/ LSAAP full laboratory

Each edition of LSAAP in this format contains:

5 individual sessions of Functional Integration (FI) of the Feldenkrais Method of somatic education applied to your research

2 collective master classes (hybrid: on-site and online)

2 group sessions (hybrid: on-site and online)

1 final closing and sharing session (hybrid: on-site and online)

Ongoing discussion and facilitation of resources throughout the process.

The duration of this laboratory is a minimum of two months and a maximum of four months. We will discuss this with you on an individual basis.

The aim is to learn how to do somatic research.

If your field of study or professional field is somewhere in the spectrum that relates the body to space, art, architecture, politics or more generally any socio-cultural or ecological environment, in LSAAP you can learn to establish coherent relations between a habitual bodily practice and the practice of theory and project making. Somatics is here an activist, academic, creative and research tool.

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3/ LSAAP Single Sessions

>>>LSAAP Body-to-Body Sessions >

This is a session of Functional Integration (FI) of the Feldenkrais method of somatic education.

Duration: 50 minutes.

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>>>LSAAP Body-to-Body Sessions applied to your research>.

This is a session of Functional Integration (FI) of the Feldenkrais method of somatic education + applied bibliography and case studies.

Duration: 80 minutes.

The PROGRAM of the sessions applied to your research are within this framework:

1- SPACE NAVIGATION:

Notations

Components

Cognitive Maps

“Ecological Self”

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2- LIVING SYSTEMS:

We are Planetary Matter

Body Structures

Systems Life and Death

Interspecies relations

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3- ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE SENSES:

Social and Political Body

Sensory Image

Sensory Systems

Synaesthesia and other Overlaps

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4- IMAGINATION:

Theories of Imagination

Utopia as a Method

Imagination and Politics

Radical Imagination

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5- EMBODIED COGNITION:

Antecedents of Somatics in Architecture and Landscape

Pedagogy and Laboratories

Situated Cognition

Extended Cognition

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Ask for more information an availability by writing to info@psaap.com

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These sessions are one of the formats of our lab. The Body-to-Body Sessions are related to LSAAP in Happenings and to our Pop-Up Somatic Architecture project.

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